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Netflix and Conan the Barbarian: What We’d Like to See

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Tom Jolliffe offers his two cents on the potential of Netflix bringing Conan back to screens… For years fans of Conan The Barbarian have waited with baited breath for the potential of a new film. Most predominantly among those, there has been a particular clamour for Arnold Schwarzenegger to return to the role which broke him […]

Denis and Dune: Reckless financial decision, or potential film for the ages?

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the interesting case of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation… Denis Villeneuve returns with another epic sci-fi. He’s fast becoming the master of rich sci-fi cinema, catering to cinephiles looking to give themselves over to a piece, rather than let excessive theatrics wash over them. Villeneuve is the antithesis to the […]

The Brandon Lee Retrospective Triple Bill: Showdown in Little Tokyo, Rapid Fire and The Crow

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Tom Jolliffe takes in a Brandon Lee triple bill of Showdown in Little Tokyo, Rapid Fire and The Crow… The Lee legacy on cinema is no small matter. Bruce Lee of course remains more iconic and more influential, having changed the face of martial arts on screen. That should not take away the fact that […]

Cinema’s Groundbreakers – George Lucas’ Star Wars

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In the latest in our ground breakers series, Tom Jolliffe looks back at where an entire franchise began in 1977’s Star Wars… It may seem odd to think, but at one time, Star Wars was something of a financial gamble. There was as much mirth at the prospect of a space saga, B picture as […]

The Defining Works of Takeshi Kitano

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career defining works of legendary Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano… Fans of Japanese cinema will no doubt be familiar with the iconic Takeshi name. Sometimes billed by nickname as Beat Takeshi, or more retrospectively now as Takeshi Kitano, this actor and comedian (most notable during the late 80’s for the oddball […]

Has Showgirls actually become kind of good?

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Showgirls, once universally derided and considered one of the worst films ever… but is it actually misunderstood? Upon its release in 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s trashy spectacular, Showgirls was obliterated by critics. It was a lavish, Vegas set tale with plenty of excess dismissed as vacuous, grimy and seedy. […]

Cinema’s Groundbreakers – Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon

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Continuing a look back at some of the most ground-breaking films in cinema, Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Rashomon… When looking back through the work of Akira Kurosawa, it would be difficult to pinpoint only one film as particularly ground-breaking. The truth his, through his early career in a post-war boom for Japanese cinema […]

An Undeniable Action Classic: Road House

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the glorious action gem Road House… To quote movie aficionado Gordy LaSure (aka Richard Ayoade) from his book The Grip of Film (excellent read I shall add); “In the opening shot of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 magnum opus about the secret world of security guards, the camera frames a pair of […]

Die Hard with Stallone, Seagal and Van Damme

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Tom Jolliffe ventures back to the 90’s, when three action icons made Die Hard riffs… It’s often said that the buff action specialists of the 80’s, who were larger than life and almost comically unstoppable were slowly pushed out of the forefront of the market by more every man heroes. Die Hard is often pinpointed […]